Rain: A City Through A Season

by Vinitha

What is the colour of rain for you? For Meena it is blue. Two young friends talk of rain as they cut through the city of Mumbai. It is the same rain, it is the same city; yet, everything is different. Rain, part of the City Mosaic Series, explores yet another facet of Mumbai city, using a season to examine a space, its people and what city life means to each of us.  City This series is a product of a collaborative process between the People Place Project studio, artist Kripa and author Vinitha. City Mosaics intends to be an essential read for children, our future citizens, to begin appreciating their city, its places and people, and its diversities, all in attempt to have a more empathic world ahead. Other books in the Lost and Found- In a Mumbai Koliwada About the Vinitha is a flaneur, book devourer, forever-thirsty-story- wanderer and a wannabe poet. She knows for sure that she could write better if she had at her disposal Scottish castles or cliff-perched mansions. For now she makes do with writing, perched on top of toilet seats while her pre-teen kids try to murder each other outside. Vinitha is also an editor, columnist and content consultant. The City Mosaic Series will add to her list of 23 published books for children. About the Kripa is an illustrator based in Mumbai. After completing Fine Arts from Sir JJ School of Art, she took up teaching Art and Design. Collecting picture books and illustrating for picture books has been her passion. Kripa loves walking, travelling in local trains and buses, observing and documenting the city. She dreams of living in a tree house someday. The People Place Project is a research initiative that explores text as a tool of place making and fosters a spirit of city consciousness. The publications are a way to share narratives that re-read our cities. ‘ A City Through a Season’ is a part of the ‘City Mosaics’ series intended to celebrate the city by examining, savouring and reflecting. The pockets of our city that we zoom past everyday, events that define our cultural legacy and our relationship with both the built and natural environment that surrounds us, are some of what City Mosaic hopes to explore. Each book is a mosaic that will come together to build the collective story of this city we live in.

Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2020